Vista and the SVn repository

[Jerkjohnny]

Trying to get the SVn repository to work in Vista. keep getting an access denied message when I try to do the SVN checkout. Tried giving Tortoise more access, as an admin was all it allowed, was thinking I might have to specifically allow it to create folders, but I'm totally lost now.

Switching to Vista has created a lot of these little headaches with no simple answers.

I'm sure the answer is simple and obvious, anyone want to point it out to me?

 

[CyberTech]

using latest version of tortoisesvn?

 

[Jerkjohnny]

yeah was teh latest, just downloaded it about an hour ago.

It can\t createa directory, the exact derror message is

"can't create directory c:// blah blah blah ... \.svn : Access is Denied. "

was thinking it was a permissions problem with vista somehow, already run into a few of those, but I can't find anywhere else to creatively give it permission yet.

 

[Pygar]

Just to confirm you are checking out the repository to a directory NOT located in the program files directory tree as explained in my previous post?

I'll wager your problem isn't that you lack permission to read the files, but are unable to write them...

 

[Jerkjohnny]

damn right you are pygar, as usual. I knew this would happen.

thanks, ill try checkout to a directory away from there heh

Been bashing around with this OS for a few days, getting used to it's anal retentive ways.

 

[CyberTech]

Can also try this: open a command prompt as administrator

takeown /f "c:\Program Files\Innerspace" /r /a

go into Properties, Security

Hit Advanced|Edit|Edit and select "Replace all existing permissions"

Set it so you have rights to all of it then let it apply em.

 

[CyberTech]

Also, from the subversion list:

It seems Vista's inheritance is broken. As you say, I had to allow my
own account full privileges of that folder even though Administrators
already have that permission AND I'm in the Administrators group!

 

[cybris]

/One thing i had to do with Vista is make admin the owner of everything in my program files directory. It was screwy evidently even though admin had installed all the programs it wasn't the owner. Another Brilliant OS brought to you by Microshaft. If only we could get game developers to use linux (sigh)

 

[Jerkjohnny]

As a follow up from my original post, it was Vista and it's maddening User Access Controls that were interefereing with the program, disabling it completely or going thru the trouble of giving that particular program access permissions as an admin were the only 2 options. I chose to eventually disable it entirely.

 

[Pygar]

UAC is the debil